Question Problem with destruction of tiles

Hi everyone
I'm currently working on a project for a simple game. Well, it's a 2D game based on tiles, I'm working with tiles for the first time so I obviously ran into a problem I can't find on the internet. I'm trying to do some sort of chain effect in a way that when 1 tile is destroyed every adjacent tile gets destroyed as well causing even more destruction. I managed to destroy single tiles, but I have no idea how to do it the way I intended it.

 

Hi @Alakazam8

You could create an array that holds data about your tiles. So tilemap would be only for visuals.

When your tile gets damage and it runs out of health, it explodes. Which would mean that you simply remove this tile, and find the neighbor tiles (data) in range, and reduce their health too.

You could also update tile visuals when its health changes. I've done something like that and it works pretty nicely.

Edit. I didn't find the thread, but this has been discussed before certainly.
I think I posted this/similar gif back then:

 

Thank you a lot